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LIVE ZAZENKAI NETCAST at GOOGLE+ IS HERE:CLICK ON THE TAB ON LOWER RIGHT FOR 'FULL SCREEN

FOR THOSE NOT ALREADY MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE WHO WISH TO JOIN TO SIT LIVE WITH A CAMERA, INSTRUCTIONS ARE POSTED AT THIS LINK. WE ARE NOW LIMITED TO 10 INDIVIDUALS WITH CAMERAS, BUT ANY NUMBER CAN WATCH LIVE 'ONE WAY' AND SIT-A-LONG VIA THE ABOVE SCREEN. IF JOINING WITH CAMERA, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE IS MUTED:

As you can see, our Zazenkai consists of chanting the 'Heart Sutra' in English (the words are at the link below), some full floor prostrations in sets of three (please follow along with me ... or a simple Gassho can be substituted if you wish), followed by our Dedication, Zazen twice for about 30 minutes each, with 10 minutes of Kinhin in between, and we end the sitting with 'The Verse of Atonement' and 'The Four Vows'.

Please download and print out the Chants we will recite at the following link (PDF):

Thanks to my wonderful wife, the financial wizard that she is, we managed to find a way to get me a new laptop! It involves me quitting smoking and some other small sacrifices but there it is and so I will be able to participate once again!

How did we get to sitting outside for this Zazenkai? Did I miss anything? Great idea btw.

Thanks to my wonderful wife, the financial wizard that she is, we managed to find a way to get me a new laptop! It involves me quitting smoking and some other small sacrifices but there it is and so I will be able to participate once again!

How did we get to sitting outside for this Zazenkai? Did I miss anything? Great idea btw.

Gassho'

Enkyo

That is great news ... see you in the garden.

Gassho
Shingen

RINDO SHINGEN
倫道 真現

As a trainee priest, please take any commentary by me on matters of the Dharma with a pinch of salt.

Great movie

BEING THERE

"I just like to watch"

Great movie and book.

Last edited by Ed; 09-27-2013 at 03:34 PM.

"Know that the practice of zazen is the complete path of buddha-dharma and nothing can be compared to it....it is not the practice of one or two buddhas but all the buddha ancestors practice this way."
Dogen zenji in Bendowa

Thank you Jundo, Dosho and everyone who are seated. I could not sit in the garden, rain threatened. Out of the window, the neighborhood animals have made a singing contest with animals from a different continent ... great
Gasshô

Crows in my yard talked to crows in the Treeleaf garden - in a different time and space. Hunting dogs in the fields across the road barked and bayed, and dogs barked somewhere near Treeleaf. A helicopter flew over Jundo and a mosquito landed on my arm. All different, but never separate.